This repository contains webinar notes and materials used in the R-Ladies Baltimore & Irvine event, Getting Started with APIs in R, presented on April 11, 2023.
If you are interested in following along the demonstration portion, I recommend cloning and/or downloading a copy of this repository to your own computer. This presentation goes over several R packages and tools:
This talk's demonstration uses R and RStudio. To follow along, make sure you have access to R and RStudio by either downloading R and RStudio, or setting up a free account at RStudio Cloud.
- Download links:
- R - https://cran.r-project.org/
- RStudio - https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/ (Download “RStudio Desktop”, not “RStudio Server”)
- If it’s been a while since you’ve used R or R Studio, no worries! But check your versions and consider updating if you’re several versions behind.
The demonstrations in this talk use the following R packages:
To follow along during the workshop, you'll need an API key. From the US Census Bureau's Developer site, submit your API key request.
- PresentationMaterials: this folder contains the powerpoint presentation used in today's talk, as well as a pdf version of the powerpoint.
- Scripts: this folder contains R scripts demonstrated in today's talk
- demo1_httr_jsonlite: R file for demonstration 1
- demo2_censusapi: R file for demonstration 2
- demo_rjsonio: R file demonstrating rjosnio (optional)
- demo_tidycensus: R file demonstrating tidycensus (optional)
The presentation materials are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), attributable to Reina Chano Murray.